单词 | Indian potato |
例句 | They carried food for the festivities: chole, chickpeas, rice and Indian potato burgers. Reining In Beach-Spreading, Not to Be Confused With Manspreading 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z On the drier banks, usually where the sedge begins near a swamp, we find the bog potato, or Indian potato. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts They had nothing to eat the last week I was with them but Indian potatoes—some people call them hoppines—that grew in the woods, and they were very scarce. Narrative of the Captivity of William Biggs among the Kickapoo Indians in Illinois in 1788 Before I close, I should like to call attention to a plant, endemic in eastern North America, whose tubers were called "ground-nuts," or "Indian potatoes" by the early colonists. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923 It means a place, or locality, and is always associated with another word descriptive of some special natural production; for instance, Shubenacadie, or Segubunakade, is the place where the ground-nut, or Indian potato, grows. Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 She understood me, and instantly produced a bowl, into which she ladled a quantity of Indian potatoes from the kettle over the fire, and set them before me. Wau-bun The Early Day in the Northwest We're not doing a thing worse than sucking 'hunters' rock leek' or roasting Indian potatoes or fishing for trout with cactus spines. Her Father's Daughter But the Winnebagoes are not our friends, we suffered for them not long ago; our children wanted food; our wives were sick; they could not plant corn or gather the Indian potato. Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling The anonymous author of this document adds a ninth clan, that of the Potato, meaning the wild Indian potato, Glycine apios. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century |
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